Interesting, didn't know that. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > gMoney wrote: > > They practice quite a bit.......water landings included. > > No they don't, I used to work on the simulator that most of all US > pilots train on. There's no way to simulate water landings - sure > they practice flying down to water and landing, but that's not a water > landing that's a landing with a blue ground instead of a gray ground. > > The crew trains with rafts, PFDs, et al in pools for evacs, but the > bottom line is that there is NO WAY to simulate water landings. > > The most you can do is tell pilots to pick lakes and rivers over the > ocean and then ... good luck. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285177 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
